A May 5, 1903 Anaconda Standard article, p 10, states that a James Ash of Billings leased 25,000 acres of sheep grazing land on the Crow Reservation / Carbon County in partnership with Thomas Runner. A James S. Ash is listed as a supporter of...

Daughter of Thomas McCormick of Rexville, NY. Married Frank Belanger at Grand Rapids, Wisconsin in 1865. Came to Billings in 1904. Lived at 804 North Broadway. Member of the St. Patrick's Catholic Church. Husband died about 1915. Her Son...

Mary Alice Osburn was born on February 9, 1852 in Speedsville, NY. Married Judge Michael Brown in Big Rapids, Michigan in 1870. Moved to Billings in 1908. Husband died in 1915. Member of the First Congregational Church and DAR. Worked with...

Mary Alice Osburn was born on February 9, 1852 in Speedsville, NY. Married Judge Michael Brown in Big Rapids, Michigan in 1870. Moved to Billings in 1908. Husband died in 1915. Member of the First Congregational Church and DAR. Worked with...

Born 1839. Came out West with William Bent in 1859. Of German descent, fought at Civil War Battle of Wilson Creek with 5th Missouri Volunteers. With Sibley during 1863 Sioux Campaign. Served with George Armstrong Custer and Seventh Cavalry...

Portrait of Crow Indian Chief Plenty Coups, circa 1900. A head shot of him in head dress. See Plenty-coups: Chief of the Crows by Frank B. Lindeman, with forward from Barney Old Coyote Jr., Phenocia Bauerle and Timothy P. McCleary, 2002. ...

Portrait of Crow Indian Chief Plenty Coups, circa 1900. A head shot of him in head dress. See Plenty-coups: Chief of the Crows by Frank B. Lindeman, with forward from Barney Old Coyote Jr., Phenocia Bauerle and Timothy P. McCleary, 2002. ...

Crow Chief Plenty Coups, circa 1925. On back identified as Chief Plenty Coups, Chief of the Crows. Taken at site of Fort Custer when monument was dedicated. Plenty Coups (otherwise known as Aleek-chea-ahoosh) (1848 � 1932) was a Crow chief and...

Crow Chief Plenty Coups, circa 1925. On back identified as Chief Plenty Coups, Chief of the Crows. Taken at site of Fort Custer when monument was dedicated. Plenty Coups (otherwise known as Aleek-chea-ahoosh) (1848 ? 1932) was a Crow chief and...

William Clanton freighted at Ft Benton. Married Miss Elizabeth Hopkins in 1883 and came to Billings. Owned land where Billings Polytechnic was sited. Formed Clanton Sheep Corporation with W.H. Clanton, Henry Rowley & Preston B Moss, as...

William Clanton freighted at Ft Benton. Married Miss Elizabeth Hopkins in 1883 and came to Billings. Owned land where Billings Polytechnic was sited. Formed Clanton Sheep Corporation with W.H. Clanton, Henry Rowley & Preston B Moss, as...

Crow Indian family by tipi identified as Curley, his wife, Takes a Shield, and child Dora Curley (George Old Elk's mother). Smithsonian has the date as 1897, a year before Miller begins work at Crow Agency. Listed on the original print at the...

Crow Indian family by tipi identified as Curley, his wife, Takes a Shield, and child Dora Curley (George Old Elk's mother). Smithsonian has the date as 1897, a year before Miller begins work at Crow Agency. Listed on the original print at the...

Crow men in full warrior regalia returning to camp on Pryor Creek through Pryor Gap. Photo by Richard Throssel, 1907. See Crow Indian Photographer: The Work of Richard Throssel by Peggy Albright (Author) , Joanna Cohan Scherer (Foreword) , Jr....

Crow men in full warrior regalia returning to camp on Pryor Creek through Pryor Gap. Photo by Richard Throssel, 1907. See Crow Indian Photographer: The Work of Richard Throssel by Peggy Albright (Author) , Joanna Cohan Scherer (Foreword) , Jr....

Black and white postcard photo of Crow Indian mother, with papoose. Identified as a Fred E. Miller photo Smithsonian Institution Notes: Fred E. Miller (1868-1936) accepted a position in 1898 as a clerk for the Bureau of Indian Affairs on the...

Black and white postcard photo of Crow Indian mother, with papoose. Identified as a Fred E. Miller photo Smithsonian Institution Notes: Fred E. Miller (1868-1936) accepted a position in 1898 as a clerk for the Bureau of Indian Affairs on the...

Crow Indians at rodeo grounds. Billings. A camp at the old fairground site where current North Park is. See BPL 2013.01.498 for the same camp. This is one of the photos brought back from Hans Plattner of Switzerland and donated to the...

Crow Indians at rodeo grounds. Billings. A camp at the old fairground site where current North Park is. See BPL 2013.01.498 for the same camp. This is one of the photos brought back from Hans Plattner of Switzerland and donated to the...

Crow Indians at rodeo grounds, Billings. A camp at the old fairground site where current North Park is. See BPL 2013.01.497 for the same camp. This is one of the photos brought back from Hans Plattner of Switzerland and donated to the...

Crow Indians at rodeo grounds, Billings. A camp at the old fairground site where current North Park is. See BPL 2013.01.497 for the same camp. This is one of the photos brought back from Hans Plattner of Switzerland and donated to the...

Original photo card of a group of Crow Indians in an empty train car. Handwritten note on back reads: Method of traveling by the Indians between Billings and Joliet when they were camping? (word illegible) in an empty coal car on the Billings to...

Original photo card of a group of Crow Indians in an empty train car. Handwritten note on back reads: Method of traveling by the Indians between Billings and Joliet when they were camping? (word illegible) in an empty coal car on the Billings to...

Copy of original photo card - see BPL 2013.01.469a. This is one of several photos donated by Dr. Hans Plattner of Chur, Switzerland to the Yellowstone Historical Society, which donated a print to the Billings Public Library. In 1958, Dr. Hans...

Copy of original photo card - see BPL 2013.01.469a. This is one of several photos donated by Dr. Hans Plattner of Chur, Switzerland to the Yellowstone Historical Society, which donated a print to the Billings Public Library. In 1958, Dr. Hans...

Billings Gazette Editor in the 1890s - See Story of Crow Dog, Billings Gazette, April 9, 1934 and Pioneer Printers Recall, Billings Gazette, April 13, 1930, p24. Jean P. Decker was also the owner of the Big Timber Pioneer about 1910. He was a...

She was born at Mission Creek (the first Crow Agency) on Mar. 6, 1875. Married Reverend John Frost at Livingston in 1895. Mary Amelia Frost, resided in Montana all her life died at age 77 - See Early Montana Resident Dies, Billings Gazette,...

Baptist minister at Pryor (for Crow) and interpreter for Chief Plenty Coups - Died in 1937 - See John Frost, 64, Indian Minister, Billings Gazette, October 27, 1937, p 1. He was the son of Dr. John H. Frost, a Union surgeon during the Civil...

Baptist minister at Pryor (for Crow) and interpreter for Chief Plenty Coups - Died in 1937 - See John Frost, 64, Indian Minister, Billings Gazette, October 27, 1937, p 1. He was the son of Dr. John H. Frost, a Union surgeon during the Civil...

Arthur J. Hart was born in Sioux City, Iowa on August 22, 1876. He is the son of Judge Alonzo P. Hart. Arrived Billings in September, 1883 as 7-yr-old. Surveyed Crow Reservation in 1891 - See Local Man Recalls His Work, Billings Gazette, March...

Civil war veteran, government scout in the 1870s, buffalo hunter, and deputy sheriff of Red Lodge. According to some newspaper accounts, Johnson was reportedly killed in 1878. The Bismarck Weekly Tribune, March 5, 1878. reported he was at the...

Henry Keiser was born in 1849. Came to the Second Crow Agency near Absarokee as a trapper. Married into the Crow Tribe. Married in December, 1882, to Carrie Medicine Singer (or Carrie Spies on the Enemy). Carrie died on December 17, 1922. At...

Born about 1887. A member of the Crow Tribe (1906 Tribal roll - Kite (Crow)). Nellie Reed Lobdell was married to Harry C. Lobdell, until his death in 1942. Harry was 18 years older. She married at age 18 years. She remarries and becomes Mrs....

Mary Alice Brown was born in Big Rapids, Michigan on January 23, 1884. Her father was Judge Michael Brown. Arrived in Billings in 1903. Member of the Billings Parks Board and Congregational Church. Husband William Lee Mains was president of...

Sarah Evans Morse: Taught at Crow Agency School in the 1890s and became School Superintendent for Yellowstone County by 1908. Executive Secretary of the Montana Tuberculosis by 1916. She died in Hardin at age 61 on January 10, 1933. Grandmother...

Portrait of the young Crow Old Coyote, as identified by Holds the Enemy. Photo by Frank Jay Haynes. 1883. See The Way of the Warrior: Stories of the Crow People by Phenocia Bauerle (Editor) , Henry Old Coyote (Translator) , Barney Old Coyote Jr.

Portrait of the young Crow Old Coyote, as identified by Holds the Enemy. Photo by Frank Jay Haynes. 1883. See The Way of the Warrior: Stories of the Crow People by Phenocia Bauerle (Editor) , Henry Old Coyote (Translator) , Barney Old Coyote Jr.

Fellows David Pease: Major F.D. Pease was born in Tioga County Pennsylvania in 1835. He married Magretta Wallace of the Crow Tribe. Three of his brothers were killed in the Civil War. In 1861 he entered the Yellowstone country and organized...

Unidentified Crow Indian family studio portrait. A Finch photo (Finch was a very early Billings photographer). Back is stamped Yellowstone Historical Society. This is one of several photos donated by Dr. Hans Plattner of Chur, Switzerland to...

Unidentified Crow Indian family studio portrait. A Finch photo (Finch was a very early Billings photographer). Back is stamped Yellowstone Historical Society. This is one of several photos donated by Dr. Hans Plattner of Chur, Switzerland to...

Crow portrait of Hunts The Enemy taken by Edward S. Curtis and found in The North American, Volume 4, page 58. See Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan.

Crow portrait of Hunts The Enemy taken by Edward S. Curtis and found in The North American, Volume 4, page 58. See Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan.

Two unidentified Crow Indian women studio portrait. A Finch photo (Finch was a very early Billings photographer). Back is stamped Yellowstone Historical Society. This is one of the photos brought back from Hans Plattner of Switzerland and donated...

Two unidentified Crow Indian women studio portrait. A Finch photo (Finch was a very early Billings photographer). Back is stamped Yellowstone Historical Society. This is one of the photos brought back from Hans Plattner of Switzerland and donated...

There was a Leverett C. Rennick who was stationed for the General Land Office at Crow Agency in 1918 and with the exception of four years when he was at Lander, Wyoming, remained at Crow Agency until 1950. He was born 1887 in Utah. He came to...

Carrie Brown Reynolds was the wife of the Crow Indian Agent, Major SG Reynolds. She was the daughter of Judge Michael Brown. She came to Billings following her marriage at Big Rapids, Michigan in 1896. They lived at Crow Agency from 1902 to...

Young Indian men ready to run foot race at the race track / rodeo grounds, Billings, near present day North Park. Back is stamped Yellowstone Historical Society. This is one of the photos brought back from Hans Plattner of Switzerland and...

Young Indian men ready to run foot race at the race track / rodeo grounds, Billings, near present day North Park. Back is stamped Yellowstone Historical Society. This is one of the photos brought back from Hans Plattner of Switzerland and...

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